The game Taboo is a game for the thinking person. All the versions I've seen are computer generated, because the computer program can compare your answers with the other 50,000 individuals who have played the game taboo. The game taboo is only 12 questions long. But those 12 questions present an interesting argument on what is morally right or wrong in today's society. For example, a small boy is playing happily on a swing in a local playground when an older girl pushes him off and hurts him for no other reason than that she wants to play on the swing. Are her actions morally wrong? The challenge of the game taboo is that most answers are reduced to a simple "Yes" or "No". Let's say you feel the little girl is wrong for pushing the small boy off the swing. You can't defend your response. But the game taboo gets better, because the questions can skew your ideology. Case in point: one question in the game Taboo asks, "Can an action be morally wrong if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it at all?"

 Let's say you answer is "no", because you feel if something is done in private and hurts no one then it's OK. But a follow-up question can pummel your response to the ground. "A family's cat was killed by a car in front of their home. They had heard that cat meat was very tasty, so they cut up the cat, cooked it and ate it for dinner. To date, they have never regretted the decision and they have not suffered any harm as a result of cooking and eating the cat." Is that morally wrong? Yes, you say? But previously you replied that if something is done in private and hurts no one than it is OK! So what is the morally correct answer? I suspect there is none, as every player of the game Taboo answers according to their cultural norms. The game Taboo has nothing in common with taboo games -- which I imagine are things a bunch of people at a party just shouldn't do. Standing in a circle and urinating in a bucket for example. But based on the premise of the game Taboo, who can say what taboo games are in the first place? If taboo games are done in private and hurt no one then are they really taboo in the first place? 

Here's another question straight from the game that will at least make you chuckle, if not think. "A man goes to his local grocery store once a week and buys a frozen chicken. But before cooking and eating the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he cooks it and eats it. He never tells anyone about what he does, never regrets it and never shows any ill effects from behaving this way. He remains an upstanding member of his community."

Apart from the fact that I'll never be able to look at a frozen chicken in quite the same way ever again, I wonder what anyone's answer regarding the morality of this act speaks of the today's society. Regarding that question I, on one hand, don't have the answer. But I can say that after playing the game Taboo that my answers were pragmatic. Just like a lot of people who play the game, several answers contradicted the others. Much like real life.